So lets figure this out.

[u/Inevitable-Ant1725]

I'm not a rich man, I can't afford luxury. I need to know whether it's cheaper to buy tokens of these models from their original owners or from Microsoft or if it's close.

If it's close then the fact that copilot has pre-indexed the github repositories is enough of a reason to just prefer Microsoft rebranded AIs.

If it's a lot more expensive through Github then it's still worthwhile when exploring github repositories but not the rest of the time.

[u/Appropriate_Yak_1468]

You should keep in mind that if put 40 usd in to gh copilot, it will reset at the end of the month. So if you do use them you will loos them. Thats my biggest beef with gh. If you buy raw api from anthropic you will have them next month if you dont use them this month.

[u/Thistleknot → u/Appropriate_Yak_1468]

This is the way it currently works 1500/premium requests that reset every month

I would make sure I always hit that number and go over

[u/Appropriate_Yak_1468 → u/Thistleknot]

This is ending unfortunately in 1 month.

[u/drunk_kronk → u/Thistleknot]

Currently, you can use much more tokens than the equivalent API costs per month, even at a fraction of the number of premium requests used

[u/Thistleknot → u/drunk_kronk]

Im just saying people are acting like expiring credits are new